Philadelphia Daily Record

SPLENDID WEATHER and an extra day off sparked strong turnout for com-

mencement of 2012, as Mummer Comics and Wenches led the way from Wash-

ington Avenue with often-edgy displays. More pics page 8.

PhiladelphiaDaily Record

So It Begins

Vol. III No. 1 (371) Keeping You Posted With The Politics Of Philadelphia January 3, 2012

Translation/InterpretationArabic, Hebrew, English, French

For more information, call William Hanna

267-808-0287

When You Want Your Roof To Be Done Right The First Time

215-464-6425

2024 S. 10th St

Philadelphia PA 19148

215-468-5363

Meat

& DeliPrego Pizzelle Baker $29.99

Uno Panini Grill $39.99

CANDIDATES • POLITICIANSNews You Can Use!

Boost Your Popularity, Win On Election Day!

Tell Your Constituents To Read About

All the Work You Do For Them On the

Philadelphiadailyrecord.comEmail them a copy of this Publication!

T h e P h i l a d e l p h i aP u b l i c R e c o r d

C a l e n d a rJan. 11- State Sen. Anthony

Williams hosts

Small Business

Forum for busi-

nesses (under 100

employees), 11

a.m.-1 p.m., at Univ.

of Pennsylvania.

Call (215) 492-2980

to RSVP. For info

www.senatorantho-

nyhwilliams.com.

Feb. 9- Steve Aldrich of

IBEW Local 269 in-

viagers all to recep-

tion in honor of

Rep. Tina Davis at

Bailey’s Bar and

Grille, 6922 Bristol

Emilie Road, Levit-

town. Host $1,000,

Patron $500, Friend.

$250, Supporter,

$50. RSVP Seth

Skervsky at 215-

550-1186.

Apr. 26- 2012 Centennial Pk.

Celebration honor-

ing Joseph Manko,

Ryan Howard and

Vanguard at Phila.

Horticultural Ctr.,

Montgomery Ave.

& N. Horticultural

Dr., 6 p.m. For tick-

ets, etc. Arthur

(215) 988-9341.

THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY RECORD

2 | PHILADELPHIADAILYRECORD.COM •

AT INAUGURAL BREAKFAST

in Academy of Music, Traffic

Court President Judge Thoma-

sine Tynes, left, welcomes to City

office three newcomers: 2nd Dist.

Councilman Kenyatta Johnson,

City Commission Chairwoman

Stephanie Singer and City Com-

missioner Al Schmidt.

• PHILADELPHIADAILYRECORD.COM | 3


City Leaders Begin New Terms

NEW YEAR, OLD YEAR: In-

coming Councilman Kenyatta

Johnson, a rising political star of

the 2010s, shares a moment with

former Mayor Wilson Goode,

who made history in the 1980s.

THE LONG AND THE SHORT

OF IT: Bill Green, beginning his

second term on City Council at

large, welcomes new colleague

David Oh, who is first Asian

American on City Council.



On Monday, Mayor Michael A.

Nutter delivered his second inau-

gural address to a capacity crowd

at the Academy of Music. Check

remarks against delivery. The

speech follows:

“To the elected officials, our Con-

gressional and Harrisburg delega-

tions, Archbishop Chaput,

Reverend Griffith, Reverend

Campbell, Reverend Roberts,

Rabbi Isaacson and all members of

our faith community, President

Judge of the Court of Common

Pleas Judge Pryor Dembe, Judge

McKee, Judge Carrafiello, Judge

Tynes.

To Gov. Rendell, Mayor Green,

Mayor Goode, Mayor Street, and

our good friend from across the

river, Mayor Dana Redd of Cam-

den.

To the retiring members of City

Council and to the new members.

To former President Anna Verna

who I enjoyed working with so

much, and to our new President of

City Council Darrell Clarke, who I

look forward to working with in

close partnership.

To my wife Lisa, daughter Olivia,

son Christian, mother Catalina and

sister Renee.

First and foremost, thank you to

the people of Philadelphia for once

again bestowing upon me this

tremendous honor.

I will never be able to fully ex-

press what it means for me, a kid

from West Philly, to stand on the

stage at the Academy of Music as

Mayor of my hometown and to

have the opportunity to continue to

serve the city and the people I love

so much.

Since that January day four years

ago when we last gathered in this

place we have made tremendous

progress together.

On that day I made a promise that

we would be a safer city, a more

educated city, a growing city, the

number one city for arts and cul-

ture in the United States, a greener

city that businesses are investing

in and creating jobs in, and a city

that people all across America

would be talking about for good

reason.

And because of the hard work of

our public servants, the dedication

of our elected officials, and the in-

genuity of our citizens in neigh-

borhoods all across this city – I

have kept that promise, and we

have set Philadelphia on a funda-

mentally different path.

But we’re not done yet.

And so as I stand before you at the

beginning of a second term it is

not my intention to celebrate what

has been done, but to talk briefly

about the values needed to guide

LIVE AUCTIONS EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 5PM (Preview 3PM)

LIVE AUCTIONS EVERY SATURDAY AT 11AM (Preview 9AM)

LIVE INTERNET AUCTION EVERY SATURDAY AT 4PM AT:

www.capitalautoauctions.com To Register & To Bid

3 BIGSALES

WEEKLY

Mayor Nutter’s Inaugural Address



us in doing what must be done.

I am not motivated by pride and

satisfaction in past accomplish-

ments.

I am motivated by a vision of what

we can be.

By an urgency to tackle the chal-

lenges that are holding us back as

a city and a deep sense and con-

cern that - though we are making

progress – there are too many

Philadelphians who do not share

in this success and promise.

I am motivated by a determination

that as we continue to transform

Philadelphia, we cannot, we must

not, we will not leave anyone be-

hind.

This sense of community and to-

getherness has guided America

since its earliest days.

In April 1630 when a band of

colonists set sail from England for

opportunity and freedom in the

New World, one among them –

John Winthrop – composed a mes-

sage to his fellow immigrants de-

scribing how they were going to

succeed and set an example to

those who would follow.

Winthrop said:

“…we must be knit together, in

this work, as one man. We must

entertain each other in brotherly

affection…We must delight in

each other; make others’ condi-

tions our own; rejoice together,

mourn together, labor and suffer

together, always having before our

eyes our commission and commu-

nity in the work, as members of

the same body.”

In Philadelphia we have our own

way of saying it: we are the City

of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Af-

fection. We’re proud of our city.

We look out for each other. We

stand up for each other. We fight

for each other.

That’s how it was when I was

growing up at 55th & Larchwood.

On Saturday morning all of the

kids on the block would grab a

broom, grab a bucket, we would

sweep our stoops and clean our

block. Together.

When one of us went to the

movies or to the rec center, we all

went. Together.

We had respect for each other and

for our elders. When my mother

told me to be back on my steps by

the time the street lights came on,

believe me, I was there.

Community. Togetherness. Re-

spect. Pride.

That’s the Philadelphia way. It’s

who we are.

We stand together. Together as a

block, as a community, as a neigh-

borhood, and as a city.

All working to make our city a

better place.

I see that togetherness almost

every day as I travel to neighbor-

hoods all across Philadelphia.

I see young people in after-school

activities learning a second lan-

guage, painting stained glass in a

church, or expressing themselves

through spoken word and poetry.

I see community leaders working

with us through our Philly Rising

initiative to clean-up neighbor-

hoods or through our Health De-

partment’s MOMS program to

help young, first-time mothers ac-

cess the early childhood services

that their baby needs.

I’m going to see it this afternoon

when I visit with Project HOME

residents who are in our workforce

development and job training pro-

grams, trying to build a better life

for themselves and play a role in

the future of this city.

All of us working together as

members of the same body.

But I also see in our own city of

Philadelphia, that William Penn, a

Quaker, founded with the values

of community, fairness, and inclu-

siveness as its bedrock, there are

too many neighborhoods where

we have lost that sense of commu-

nity, that pride in our city, that

commitment to each other.

There are too many Philadelphians

who don’t feel safe in their own

neighborhoods, whose children are

stuck in low-performing schools,

who are struggling to find work

and some who have even given up

looking for a job.

And I refuse to accept that we can

– or should – move forward as a

city if we have not done all we can

to include all Philadelphians in our

progress.

We must be willing to have an

honest conversation about the

things that are holding us back and

ask ourselves, “what are we pre-

pared to do about them”, together.



We must be willing to do some-

thing about the fact that of the 317

people who were murdered in

Philadelphia last year, 83% of

them were killed with a handgun,

nearly 75% of those

killed…African American men,

around 80% of those doing the

killing … African American men –

a local and national epidemic not

sufficiently talked about, much less

tackled.

What are we going to do about

this?

We’re going to put more police on

our streets – 120 new officers on

foot patrol by summer this year.

But we must do more.

We’re going to continue to build

partnerships with the community

through community policing and

Philly Rising.

Working with Mayors around the

country and with leaders in our

own community we have begun a

serious, adult conversation and

have started to develop strategic

action plans to deal with the prolif-

eration of illegal guns and the fact

that people and their guns are wip-

ing out an entire generation of

African American men and boys.

And we are developing a new ap-

proach, which we will roll out in

the coming months, to getting

these illegal guns off our streets –

targeting the people who have

them, the people who are supply-

ing them and the neighborhoods

that they’re operating in – the five

police districts that account for al-

most 50% of the homicides in this

city – and working with our part-

ners at all levels of government to

go after them aggressively and re-

lentlessly. Every day.

But while we say to those who

hide behind illegal guns that we

will come after you and the people

who are supplying these weapons

harder and tougher than ever be-

fore, we must also be brave enough

to extend a hand to those who want

to put the gun down, to make a dif-

ferent choice.

We must show them that if you put

the gun down we’ll work with you

to put a book in your hands, to put

some work and a job in your

hands, to put a paycheck in your

hands. We’ll work with you to put

your future back in your hands.

Because some of these young peo-

ple terrorizing neighborhoods are

themselves just frightened kids.

They’re not all bad kids. They

weren’t born like this.

These are kids who lack opportu-

nity. Who believe that they have

no future, that there is no door

open to them.

And when we have to lock them

up, we also lock up their potential.

I met a young man two days ago at

the juvenile prison on State Road.

His name is Kent. He’s 17 years

old.

Kent was sentenced to 7-20 years

for four armed robberies. He told

me he got about $2,000. But he

also told me he has a 3.6 GPA from

John Bartram HS and scored 1400

on his SATs.

Colleges are still sending letters to

his parents house – unaware of

where he is – trying to get him to

apply.

He told me he’s sorry for what he’s

done and knows he has to pay the

price for some very bad decisions.

He’s our kid, and he, all the juve-

niles up on State Road, and every

other young person in this city are

part of the future of Philadelphia.

We have to show them all that they

do have a future, that they all can

get a job, that to be a real man or

woman means to take responsibil-

ity for your own life, to earn a

wage, to provide for your own

family.

We can reach these kids and I will

not accept that we can leave any of

them behind.

I also won’t accept that we can

leave behind so many of our stu-

dents in failing schools and that

they and their families shouldn’t

have access to the same opportuni-

ties that the kids of the people in

this room have themselves.

Not only is it unfair … it holds us

all back.

I’m on the phone every day fight-

ing to bring jobs to Philadelphia

and the number one thing that

companies want to talk about is

our workforce.

If we don’t have educated, trained,

skilled workers we will struggle to

attract these new businesses, grow

the companies that are already

here, and create the new jobs that

are so needed in our city.



We must better educate and train

our young people and that’s going

to require serious and difficult

changes in our school system, in

the way in which we provide edu-

cation.

I committed on day one that my

administration would work with

the State, the SRC and the School

District. And now, through the

Philadelphia Great Schools Com-

pact, we will turn around the low-

est-performing schools in our

system and, if they can’t be turned

around, close or replace them with

high-quality alternatives.

Reform, restructure, or replace.

Because the alternative is aban-

doning some children in some

schools in some communities, ef-

fectively saying that they don’t de-

serve every opportunity that we

can give them, whose education

must take a back seat to political

agendas, historic mismanagement,

and a tradition of low expecta-

tions, who can be left behind as we

try to move this city forward.

Well, I’m a public school parent

too and I can’t accept that. I won’t

accept it. And neither should you.

These two issues – high crime

rates in many neighborhoods and

too few quality public education

options – are holding us back as a

city.

They stretch the fabric of our soci-

ety to its breaking point.

And this is not some moral or so-

cial crusade. This is an economic

imperative for our city.

We spend one third of our budget

on our criminal-justice complex.

One third of your tax dollars deal-

ing with bad decisions and bad be-

havior. It’s a waste.

That money would be spent on ed-

ucation, after-school programs, or

libraries, or parks and recreation

centers.

If more of our young people went

to school, stayed in school, gradu-

ated and went on to training or col-

lege we’d have less poverty, less

crime, more jobs, we’d be able to

cut taxes and at the same time gen-

erate more revenue to invest in our

communities.

Imagine what this city can be if we

change the mentality of those who

think they can carry and use illegal

guns in our neighborhoods, and

get away with it.

Imagine what this city can be if

every child – fuelled and driven by

high expectations – gets a high

quality education in a safe envi-

ronment, supported and encour-

aged by their parents and their

community.


continue to attract new companies

and jobs and train Philadelphians

so that they can succeed in these

new industries.


restore to all par.s of Philadelphia

the values of community, together-

ness, respect and pride that should

define our city and that I see every

day in many parts of this city.

This is all within our reach.

These are challenges that we can

and will tackle.

There must be no issue too uncom-

fortable or too complicated for us

to take on, no discussion too awk-

ward or sensitive for us to have.

We will say what needs to be said

but hasn’t been; we will do what

needs to be done but hasn’t hap-

pened.

We cannot accept the status quo.

This cannot be just ‘how it is’.

We’re bigger than that, we’re

bolder than that, we’re better than

that.

And so today I make a pledge, and

I ask you to join me in this com-

mitment. .

That we will focus on the forgot-

ten, we will shine a light on areas

of darkness, we will give a voice

to those not heard, and that as we

continue to build a better Philadel-

phia, to move our city in a positive

direction, that we will not leave

anyone behind.

That, as I said earlier, we must be

knit together, in this work, as one

city.

We must reject this notion of “a

tale of two cities”. A society di-

vided into the rich and the poor,

the affluent and the oppressed, the

educated and the enslaved.

We are not two cities. We must not

become two cities.

We are one city, one Philadelphia,

and we will succeed together, as

one Philadelphia.



Despite enormous economic chal-

lenges over the last few years we

are building our way back and

Philadelphia is undergoing a trans-

formation. My job is to keep push-

ing us forward – faster and farther

– and to make sure that we do not

leave anybody behind.

This city took a young black boy,

growing up in West Philadelphia

with his mother, his father, his sis-

ter and his grandmother and it

found a way to keep him out of

trouble and give him the best edu-

cation possible, even though his

family couldn’t afford to pay for it.

It gave him a sense of community,

of right and wrong, of the notion

that we are our brothers’ and sis-

ters’ keepers.

This city introduced that young

man to a political leader – John C.

Anderson – who would inspire

him to dedicate his life to serving

others and, ultimately, this city al-

lowed that man to serve as the

Mayor of his hometown.

You didn’t leave me behind, and I

won’t leave any of you behind.

I will spend every waking moment

of every day of this new term

working with Council, working

with the state, the federal govern-

ment, working with you and fight-

ing for you, fighting for this great

city.

We’re in this together. One city.

One Philadelphia. No one left be-

hind.

God bless you, God bless ALL

Philadelphians, and may God bless

the City of Brotherly Love and

Sisterly Affection, the city of

Philadelphia.”

Mummers Talk Politics

SOMETIMES a Councilman, always a

Mummer,” commented 1st Dist. Coun-

cilman Frank DiCicco on his last day in

office after wenching his way down

Broad Street, here pausing to greet old

friend Judge John Braxton.



OCCUPY PHILLY turned out a

Comic brigade dressed as oc-

topi, to protest “corporate tenta-

cles” of the “1%,” among other

things.

MULTIPLE ALLEGIANCES

are common among Comics, as

with all Mummers. Irish in par-

ticular are well represented….

WHILE OTHERS were true

blue for US Navy….



…BUT RED CHINESE

WENCHES? This may be a sign

of 21st-century political align-

ments to come.

‘Independence Hall’ Is First

Tea Party To Endorse Mitt Romney The Independence Hall Tea Party

PAC, a tri-state (Del.-Pa.-N.J.) re-

gional group, announced Monday

its 27-member Board of Delegates

has voted overwhelmingly to en-

dorse Mitt Romney for President.

The Independence Hall Tea Party

PAC is the first Tea Party group in

the nation to formally endorse Mitt

Romney.

“Over the past several weeks, a con-

sensus has been building among our

Board of Delegates that Mr. Rom-

ney is the most electable Republi-

can candidate,” said PAC President

Don Adams. “We, as a Tea Party

PAC, have set winning the White

House as our number one priority in

2012. We believe Mr. Romney is

the one candidate who can win the

Republican nomination and defeat

President Barack Obama in Novem-

ber.

“Mr. Romney is the only Republi-

can candidate who has consistently

polled even or ahead of President

Obama in national surveys. He puts

a number of 2008 blue states in

play, including Michigan and New

Hampshire. He also appeals to large

numbers of independent voters.”

“Mr. Romney, a devoted family

man, is an incredibly talented, well-

rounded individual with in-depth

knowledge and experience in both

the private and public sectors of the

economy,” said PAC New Jersey

VP Bill Green. “Ultimately, we be-

lieve Mr. Romney is a man of prin-

ciple who, once elected, will lead

our nation back to prosperity.”

PAC Delaware VP Kevin Street

said, “Mr. Romney has stated time

and again he believes in a limited

role for the Federal government –

emphasizing the 10th Amendment of

the United States Constitution de-

lineates between the powers of the

national government and that of the

states.”

“Mr. Romney will pursue a policy

of energy independence, lower

taxes, and less government spend-

ing. He has promised to secure our

borders and redirect our foreign pol-

icy,” added PAC Pennsylvania VP

Sean Carpenter. “Under his presi-

dency, the United States will no

longer prostrate itself before other

nations. We believe in a strong

America –an America that is re-

spected for its economic vibrancy,

its military strength, and its consti-

tutional values.”

PAC Co-Founder Teri Adams said,

“We realize a number of fellow Tea

Partiers are not yet where we are in

supporting Mitt Romney for Presi-

dent –and we respect their varied

positions.

“However, we felt compelled to

make an endorsement in light of a



counter-productive effort to stop

Mitt Romney among some dis-

parate elements on the right – often

based on a religious intolerance of

Mr. Romney’s Mormon faith.

“We also think the notion the Tea

Party will support a 3rd-party candi-

date after Mitt Romney becomes

the Republican nominee, a notion

most often advanced by the main-

stream media, must be discredited,”

Ms. Adams said.

“It discounts the good sense of mil-

lions of Tea Party folks nationwide

who have come to realize, or will

eventually realize, that the only way

to defeat President Obama, whose

policies are an anathema to conser-

vatism and the Tea Party Move-

ment, is to rally around his strongest

opponent – Mitt Romney – the man

who, we believe, will become the

next president of the United States.”

The Independence Hall Tea Party

Association, the sister organization

of the Independence Hall Tea Party

PAC, was formed in May 2009. It is

the largest Tea Party group in the

tri-state region. For more informa-

tion, visit www.IndependenceHall-

TeaPartyPAC.com.

Philadelphia Daily Record

Documents

mayor goode

mayor green

mayor street

mayor michael

new members

t h e p h i

city council atlarge

philadelphia daily record2